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Top US commander warns Philippines rift could hurt terrorism fight

Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)

Washington's top military officer in Asia-Pacific Admiral Philip Davidson said he hoped Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's decision to scrap a deal allowing...

BAE to develop analytics technology to detect WMDs

Feb 12, 2020 (UPI)

According to BAE, this technology is the first of its kind and will include data fusion, adversary modeling, pattern matching and machine learning to detect and...

Trump confirms killing of AQAP chief in Yemen

Feb 07, 2020 (AFP)

The US "conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated Qassim al-Rimi, a founder and the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsu...

French jihadists on death row in Iraq appeal to UN

Feb 06, 2020 (AFP)

Eleven French nationals were sentenced to death last year in Iraq and three others to life imprisonment after being convicted of membership of the Islamic State...

Jihadists' Syria capability intact: US watchdog

Feb 05, 2020 (AFP)

An inspector general from the Department of Defense also said that a possible departure of American troops from Iraq would likely lead to a resurgence of the ji...

US arrests Arizona man over alleged ties to Al-Qaeda

Feb 01, 2020 (AFP)

Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, a 42 year-old resident of Phoenix in the southwestern state of Arizona, appeared before a federal judge on Friday and is wanted in Ir...

Mali jihadists return to village where raid killed 20

Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)

The Malian army, which had retaken control of Soloko, had "fallen back" to the neighbouring area of Diabaly and jihadists had returned to the village, a local t...

IS vows 'new phase' of attacks focused on Israel: audio message

Jan 27, 2020 (AFP)

In a purported audio message by its spokesman Abu Hamza al-Quraishi, the jihadist organisation called for sabotaging a so-called peace plan US President Donald ...

New Islamic State group leader identified: report

Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)

The paper, citing officials from two unnamed spy services, described him as one of the terrorist group's founding members and said he had led the enslavement of...

Increased security, fear of violence ahead of Virginia pro-gun rally

Jan 20, 2020 (AFP)

The demonstrators will gather in front of the Capitol building for a so-called "Lobby Day" organized by the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), which oppos...

FBI arrests US, Canadian 'white extremists' ahead of pro-gun rally

Jan 17, 2020 (AFP)

Federal prosecutors in Greenbelt, Maryland said that US citizens Brian Lemley, 33, and William Bilbrough, 19, and Canadian Patrik Jordan Mathews, 27, were all c...

DoD says it will update vetting for foreign military students

Jan 17, 2020 (UPI)

According to a DoD press release, Defense secretary Mark Esper will visit Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida on Jan. 22 and 23 to update air station leaders...

Norway repatriates IS-linked woman, children from Syria

Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)

Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soreide, confirming the operation to bring them home, told reporters: "We are doing that for humanitarian reasons because we fear t...

Nanomaterial fabric destroys nerve agents in battlefield-relevant conditions

Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)

The material, a zirconium-based metal-organic framework (MOF), degrades in minutes some of the most toxic chemical agents known to mankind: VX and soman (GD), a...

Iran designates US forces 'terrorists' for killing general

Jan 07, 2020 (AFP)

Qasem Soleimani, the popular head of the Revolutionary Guards' foreign operations arm, was killed in a US drone strike outside Baghdad airport on Friday, ratche...

Defiant Trump doubles down on threat to Iran cultural sites

Jan 06, 2020 (AFP)

After his top diplomat, Mike Pompeo, had insisted that any military action would conform to international law, Trump said he would regard cultural sites as fair...

Who is the Islamic State group's new boss?

Dec 23, 2019 (AFP)

But the true identity of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi remains shrouded in mystery, and with it the organisation's strategy going forward. "We don't know m...

Bosnia repatriates IS-linked men, women and children from Syria

Dec 19, 2019 (AFP)

Seven men among the group were detained upon arrival and are accused of fighting "on the side of terrorist organisations in Syria and Iraq," the security minist...

IS claims responsibility for Niger attack which killed 71: SITE

Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)

Hundreds of jihadists attacked the camp, near the border with Mali with shells and mortars on Tuesday, killing 71, injuring 122 and leaving "others missing," ac...

Pentagon suspends training of Saudis for security review

Dec 11, 2019 (AFP)

Saudi Arabian military students in the United States will continue classroom instruction but operational training is halted pending a security review, senior De...